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Dear Reader,

This reflection you are about to read is extremely unpleasant. In this reflection, not only is there no happy ending, no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not many happy things happened this week.
Sounds familiar? Haha. This is how Lemony Snicket’s A series of unfortunate events begins and this is how my reflection for this week will be. Ok, I’m exaggerating! It’s not that bad! My reflection is going to be more boring than unpleasant. So if you are expecting something more interesting, I would suggest that you should go read some else’s refection first. Save mine for the last so that I can bore you to sleep.
Week 7. The week of the dreaded storytelling quiz. Haha. Ok I’m exaggerating again, it wasn’t that bad! It was pretty easy but being a paranoid person, I had to check my paper over and over again before I handed it in. I think I didn’t do very well for the last question. I knew that the character had some sort of disease, some sleeping disorder but I forgot the name so I just wrote about his age, eye and hair colour. The best part was that I spelled slips wrongly! Can u believe that! I spelt it as slipes! I just wasted one mark by spelling such a simple word wrongly.

Anyway, let me move on to other stuff because even I am getting bored with my own reflection. Today’s lecture was all about dialogue. We learnt how bad dialogue can affect a movie and how it affects the audience. This reminded me of a movie which I watched some time back in HBO. Its not a very new movie, I think its from the 80s. The movie was real bad. REAL BAD! I forgot the title of the movie but I know it’s about some extra marital affair. The protagonist’s wife will be having an affair with his best friend. The terrible thing about the movie was the dialogue. They were not bad or anything but it was too much! This movie can be shown during class to show how bad a film can get if there are too much of dialogue. I think the first thirty minutes of the movie will only show the protagonist and his wife having a conversation in a café. How boring is that! To make it even worse, they would be talking about something that happened in the past so we have no clue about what they are talking about. The movie just goes on and on. I felt so bored that I fell asleep.

We also watched a movie today. Sadly, it was a Singaporean film called autograph book. The movie was ok, an average film. Anyway, what can you except from a Singaporean film. Singaporean film makers just try too hard but they never really give good stuff. I think Singapore can never make it big in the arts industry because Singaporeans don’t really give much importance to the arts even though they claim they do.

Moving on, this week was really tiring. I went to vivo city to take some photos for my photography assignment. Vivo city is such a nice place because it feels like you are not in Singapore! It has a very island like feel to it. Singapore is an island too but you don’t get that relaxed, island atmosphere. I managed to take some pictures but
they are not that good because I was falling asleep while taking most of them. Another great thing about Vivo city is that it has Haagen Daaz and they have swings in the shop! So we can eat ice cream sitting on a comfy swing! How cool is that! I also went to candy empire! This place is so awesome that you can spend hours there just looking at all the goodies (this only applies to those with a sweet tooth). I bought something called caramel waffle and they were out of this world! They were so good! Most of the chocolates sold there were imported. My favourite is the honey milk chocolate. It is like a piece of heaven. You should go and try it!

This week’s assignment is really funny! We had to write a dialogue based on our own parents having a conversation and the scenario given makes it even more hilarious. My father doesn’t drink so I have to change the dialogue a bit. My parents would never read out the dialogue and let me record it so I have decided to use Wendy and Pradip to read out my dialogues. I feel the first dialogue I wrote is much better than the first one maybe because the second one is written for my parents. You tend to think twice before writing something especially for your parents. Here is the first dialogue which I wrote:

Wife: Why didn’t you tell me that you would be late? I wasted all my time, cooking for nothing!
Middle aged man: Now you know that I was out with my friends so why did you cook?
Wife: What? Do you even know what you are talking about! You don’t make sense! I don’t want to talk to you. You are drunk!
Middle aged man: I’m not drunk! You are the one who is drunk. Wasting your own time cooking for nobody.
Wife: Just leave me alone. I had enough of your nonsense!
Middle aged man: What? Can’t I have a life? I just went drinking with some of my buddies and you have to make a big fuss about nothing!
Wife: Nothing? You think this is nothing? All my time spent on cooking this seven course meal is for nothing. Can’t u even give me half the importance you give to your friends!
Middle aged man: What more can I give? I give you my salary each month without fail!
Wife: It’s not about the money!!!!
Middle aged man: Are you drunk?
Wife: I cant stand it any longer! I’m leaving!

I have done an average job with the dialogue but Wendy and Pradip have done a good job reading them out. Their voices make my dialogue more interesting. Ok, I better post my dialogues on my blog before I forget!